Assessment of heavy metal contamination status in sediments and identification of pollution source in Ichkeul Lake and rivers ecosystem,northern Tunisia   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Nesrine Ouchir  Lassaâd Ben Aissa  Mabrouk Boughdiri  Abdelwaheb Aydi 《Arabian Journal of Geosciences》2016,9(9):539

The aim of this study was to determine the concentration of Pb, Zn, Cu, Cd, Cr, and Fe in sediments of the Ichkeul Lake and rivers ecosystem in northern Tunisia; their comparison with international sediment quality criteria was also proposed to assess the extent of metal pollution and their origin using various pollution indicators. For this purpose, sediment samples were collected in thirteen locations and characterized for metal content (Pb, Cr, Zn, Cu, Cd, and Fe) using the total digestion technique. Pollution level was assessed via the geoaccumulation index (Igeo), enrichment factor (EF), contamination factor (C ), potential ecological risk (PER), and pollution load index (PLI). Our results showed that all metals were lower than the threshold effect levels (TEL), the effect range low (ERL), the probable effect level (PEL), the effect range median (ERM), and the probable effect concentration (PEC) value, except Pb and Cr (higher than TEL), the threshold effect concentration (TEC), and the toxicity reference value (TRV). The geoaccumulation index (Igeo) indicated no pollution for Cr, Cu, Zn, and Fe, but moderate pollution for Pb. The enrichment factor showed no enrichment for most of the studied metals. This was further confirmed by the contamination factor that indicated low contamination levels, with the exception of Pb. The pollution load index (PLI) showed moderate pollution status in all the studied stations in the Ichkeul Lake and rivers ecosystem. The statistical results presented similar trends of Zn and Pb probably due to their similar pollution sources. It was found that the Ichkeul Lake and river ecosystems are characterized by moderate pollution status in all the studied sites except for that of a feeder river drained from an old lead mine which had relatively high metallic concentrations of Pb and Cd. It can be argued that effective remediation strategies and environmental management plans are required to control and reduce the input of environmentally hazardous toxic pollutants (Cd and Pb). This study may serve as a useful reference tool pertinent to approaches to the remediation of the old lead mine area surrounding the Ichkeul Lake as well as other areas under similar ecological conditions..  相似文献   

Geomorphological features and weathering of the Southern Submassif of the Menderes Massif (SW Turkey)     

Murat Gül  Göksu Uslular 《Arabian Journal of Geosciences》2016,9(16):682

The Southern Submassif crops out in the SW of Turkey. This submassif consists of mostly large feldspar-bearing orthogneisses and to a lesser extent tourmaline-orthoclase-plagioclase-, quartz-, muscovite-, and biotite-bearing leucogranites. The orthogneiss forms domed bald hills. The leucogranites crop out (approximately 2 km²) in the southeastern lowland of the hill. Those units show various geomorphological features that are typically reported in granitoids. Many studies about the Menderes Massif are related with petrography and metamorphic history. The geomorphological features are not taken into consideration. Field observation, thin section analysis, joint set-foliation measurements, and Schmidt Hammer value determination were done in this study. The pillar structures (castellated and domed types) are among larger structures observed on flanks of the domed bald hill. Geomorphological features such as weathering pits, tafoni, honeycomb structures, polygonal cracks, flared slopes, exfoliation, and boulders are observed. The metamorphism causes mineral alignments that affect the strength of the rock. The studied rocks have high strength in perpendicular direction to foliation. The complex tectonic history caused developments of several joint sets. Differences in mineral strength (e.g., high in quartz, low in biotite and feldspar) increase weathering effect. Underground water percolation through the fractures weakens the rock and causes subsurface weathering. After exhumation, disintegrated materials are stripped off, and then flared slopes, polygonal cracks, and pillar structures are exposed. Surface weathering by wind and water increases the weathering effects and gives rise to a formation of rounded rock edges called spheroidal weathering. Contrary to other granitoid areas, the metamorphism promotes the formation of geomorphological features in the study area.  相似文献   

Taking correlations in GPS least squares adjustments into account with a diagonal covariance matrix   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

Gaël Kermarrec  Steffen Schön 《Journal of Geodesy》2016,90(9):793-805

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Micro-sized enterprises: vulnerability to flash floods     

Konstantinos Karagiorgos  Micha Heiser  Thomas Thaler  Johannes Hübl  Sven Fuchs 《Natural Hazards》2016,81(2):1091-1106

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Comparison of Satellite-Only Gravity Field Models Constructed with All and Parts of the GOCE Gravity Gradient Dataset     

Sean L. Bruinsma  Christoph Förste  Sandrine Mulet  Marie-Hélène Rio  Oleg Abrikosov  Jean-Charles Marty 《Marine Geodesy》2016,39(3-4):238-255

The impact of GOCE Satellite Gravity Gradiometer data on gravity field models was tested. All models were constructed with the same Laser Geodynamics Satellite (LAGEOS) and Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) data, which were combined with one or two of the diagonal gravity gradient components for the entire GOCE mission (November 2009 to October 2013). The Stokes coefficients were estimated by solving large normal equation (NE) systems (i.e., the direct numerical approach). The models were evaluated through comparisons with the European Space Agency's (ESA) gravity field model DIR-R5, by GPS/Leveling, GOCE orbit determination, and geostrophic current evaluations. Among the single gradient models, only the model constructed with the vertical ZZ gradients gave good results that were in agreement with the formal errors. The model based only on XX gradients is the least accurate. The orbit results for all models are very close and confirm this finding. All models constructed with two diagonal gradient components are more accurate than the ZZ-only model due to doubling the amount of data and having two complementary observation directions. This translates also to a slower increase of model errors with spatial resolution. The different evaluation methods cannot unambiguously identify the most accurate two-component model. They do not always agree, emphasizing the importance of evaluating models using many different methods. The XZ gravity gradient gives a small positive contribution to model accuracy.  相似文献   

Model for the Processing and Estimation of Dual Frequency Echo Sounder Observations in Detailed Bathymetries   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Raúl Pereda García  Felipe Piña García  Julio Manuel De Luis Ruiz  Raúl Husillos Rodríguez 《Marine Geodesy》2016,39(3-4):305-320

The dataset acquired by an echo sounder generally comprises outliers and erroneous measurements which must be automatically processed. The main aim of this research is the development and validation of an algorithm which permits detecting outliers, estimating their real value from data acquired with a multifrequency echo sounder, and verifying the measure according to the desired accuracy. The process considers the nature of the seabed and improves the density and number of lectures without globally compromising the precision, but enhancing it in areas with anomalous measurements. Twenty-nine percent of this type of measurements, which would have been otherwise rejected, have been estimated.  相似文献   

Mine Wastes Environmental Impact Mapping Using Landsat ETM+ and SPOT 5 Data Fusion in the North of Tunisia     

Nouha Mezned  Nada Mechrgui  Sâadi Abdeljaouad 《Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing》2016,44(3):451-455

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Slow-ridge/hotspot interactions from global gravity, seismic tomography and ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr isotope data     

Jean Goslin  Jean-Louis Thirot  Olivier Noël  & Jean Francheteau 《Geophysical Journal International》1998,135(2):700-710

Among the mantle hotspots present under oceanic areas, a large number are located on—or close to—active oceanic ridges. This is especially true in the slow-spreading Atlantic and Indian oceans. The recent availability of worldwide gravity grids and the increasing coverage of geochemical data sets along active spreading centres allow a fruitful comparison of these data with global geoid and seismic tomography models, and allow one to study interactions between mantle plumes and active slow-spreading ridges. The observed correlations allow us to draw preliminary conclusions on the general links between surficial processes, which shape the detailed morphology of the ridge axes, and deeper processes, active in the upper mantle below the ridge axial domains as a whole. The interactions are first studied at the scale of the Atlantic (the Mid-Atlantic Ridge from Iceland to Bouvet Island) from the correlation between the zero-age free-air gravity anomaly, which reflects the zero-age depth of the ridge axis, and Sr isotopic ratios of ridge axis basalts. The study is then extended to a more global scale (the slow ridges from Iceland to the Gulf of Aden) by including geoid and upper-mantle tomography models. The interactions appear complex, ranging from the effect of large and very productive plumes, almost totally overprinting the long-wavelength segmentation pattern of the ridge, to that of weaker hotspots, barely marking some of the observables in the ridge axial domain. Intermediate cases are observed, in which hotspots of medium activity (or whose activity has gradually decreased) located at some distance from the ridge axis produce geophysical or geochemical signals whose variation along the axis can be correlated with the geometry of the plume head in the upper mantle. Such observations tend to preclude the use of a single hotspot/ridge interaction model and stress the need for additional observations in various plume/ridge configurations.  相似文献   

Garnet pyroxenite and eclogite in the Bohemian Massif: geochemical evidence for Variscan recycling of subducted lithosphere   总被引：6，自引：0，他引：6  

L. G. Medaris Jr  B. L. Beard  C. M. Johnson  J. W. Valley  M. J. Spicuzza  E. Jelínek  Z. Mísâr 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》1995,84(3):489-505

High-temperature, high-pressure eclogite and garnet pyroxenite occur as lenses in garnet peridotite bodies of the Gföhl nappe in the Bohemian Massif. The high-pressure assemblages formed in the mantle and are important for allowing investigations of mantle compositions and processes. Eclogite is distinguished from garnet pyroxenite on the basis of elemental composition, with mg number <80, Na₂O > 0.75 wt.%, Cr₂O₃ < 0.15 wt.% and Ni < 400 ppm. Considerable scatter in two-element variation diagrams and the common modal layering of some eclogite bodies indicate the importance of crystal accumulation in eclogite and garnet pyroxenite petrogenesis. A wide range in isotopic composition of clinopyroxene separates [_Nd, +5.4 to –6.0; (⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr)_i, 0.70314–0.71445; ¹⁸O_SMOW, 3.8–5.8%o] requires that subducted oceanic crust is a component in some melts from which eclogite and garnet pyroxenite crystallized. Variscan Sm-Nd ages were obtained for garnet-clinopyroxene pairs from Dobeovice eclogite (338 Ma), Úhrov eclogite (344 Ma) and Nové Dvory garnet pyroxenite (343 Ma). Gföhl eclogite and garnet pyroxenite formed by high-pressure crystal accumulation (±trapped melt) from transient melts in the lithosphere, and the source of such melts was subducted, hydrothermally altered oceanic crust, including subducted sediments. Much of the chemical variation in the eclogites can be explained by simple fractional crystallization, whereas variation in the pyroxenites indicates fractional crystallization accompanied by some assimilation of the peridotite host.  相似文献   

Волна охлаждения в оьолочках сверхновых звëзд     

Э. К. Грасьерг  Д. К. Надëжин 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1976,44(2):429-449

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